1. Keep Calm & Let’s Address Sensory Issues
Get in Sync
With
Sensory Issues
Keep Calm & Let’s Address Sensory Issues
Christi Gonzales
Autism SPED Teacher
New Iberia Senior High School
New Iberia, La.

3. What is Sensory Processing Disorder?
There is a dysfunction in the nervous system and our senses do not translate information from the environment in a typical way.
This dysfunction leads to abnormal behaviors.

4. An estimated 1 in 6 children has sensory concerns that affect daily life.
Sensory problems affect children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders.

5. The Lesser Known Senses
The 5 Senses
Visual (sight)
Tactile (touch)
Gustatory (taste)
Olfactory (smell)
Auditory (hearing)
The Lesser Known Senses
Proprioceptive (position)
Vestibular (the sense of knowing where you are)

16. PLAN PREPARE STRATEGIZE As Teachers, We Must……
PLAN – for emergencies….different situations..fieldtrips PREPARE- for emergencies…carry a backpack with emergency sensory objects
STRATEGIZE – use your Professional Learning Network, Collaborate with Colleges, Communicate, and Coordinate with others (use your resources)
STRATEGIZE

19. How would you feel if you walked on this everyday?
How would students feel?

21. Search for Sensory Ideas
Using:
Facebook and other Social Media sites
Pinterest
Youtube
The World Wide Web/ Internet

22. FaceBook pages that I subcribe to:
Sensory Processing Disorder
Sensory Processing Disorder Support
Weighted Blanket Sponsorship Page
Support for Sensory Needs
Sensory Play and Play Based Learning
Voices of Sensory Processing Disorder Discussion Group
Project Sensory
The Sensory Spectrum

23. Sensory Kits – are a portable container/ backpack/booksack, etc contains items to stimulate or calm a student’s sensory system.
Examples of items to include – social stories, portable schedules , noise reducing headphones (non-working ones-cut off cord), calming items (squeeze balls, putty, gum), fidgets, and more.

34. *www.gonoodle.com *www.youtube.com EMAIL chgonzales@Iberia.k12.la.us